WorldView-4 is the last advanced satellite in a fleet of five working DigitalGlobe spacecraft designed to beam high-resolution portrait of various homes on Earth back to people on the ground.

The details in the new photo are impressive, especially considering that the epitome was taken from 617 kilometers, or about 383 miles, above the planet. Automobiles and trucks can be seen on streets and in parking lots, and unfolding shadows of soccer actors fan out on tones on the upper-left fraction of the photo.

A close-up of part of the WorldView-4 image.

Image: IMAGE COURTESY DIGITALGLOBE 2016

The difference between WorldView-4’s first photo and some of the early images taken by DigitalGlobe’s Ikonos satellite, which launched in 1999 and took its last-place photo in 2014, are like night and day.

Black and white Ikonos images clearly prove large-scale features of different places, but the detail is lost, limiting the number of applications available to users of the data.

All in all, WorldView-4 will be delivered 680,000 square kilometers( a bit less than the size of Texas) of imagery to DigitalGlobe’s database every day.

Clients like Google use those likeness to make maps, provide help to aid organizations after catastrophes, and other applications.

DigitalGlobe isn’t the only commercial company in the Earth imagery play. In reality, this is a rapidly expanding place, though DigitalGlobe accepts out for its sizable government business with secretive parties like the National Reconnaissance Office.

Start-ups like Orbital Insight, Planet and Spire want to use small-minded satellites and large-scale data to investigate epitomes speedily to track issues like deforestation and even track aircraft and provide insight about the weather.